Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-02-05
Letter from the Capital.
PRESCOTT. Jan. 24th.

PRESCOTT, Jan. 24th.
 ED. CITIzEN:-The wheels of the leg islsture are moving slowly, there hay ing been but about twenty five bills in troduced so far in the lower house, a great deal Of their time being consumed in calling each other to order. Itlooked this afternoon for while as though there would be a row, sure. Peel, of Cochise. offered a resolution ss a mem Der of the house judiciary committee, that the judiciary committee of both houses meet jointly each day and receive report from the code commission-she two committees would then go over the report and reject what they did not like, and report to their respective houses what m their judgment they considered proper, instead of having the commis- sion report direct to both houses. Webb called Andrews to the chair and stated m strong language inst he was opposed to anything that had the ap- peBrRnce of Star Chamber work, and that no matter how competent the committee might be, 1t was deiegsting too much power to them. This, of course, brought U reply from the other side, and F. w. Heyne, of Cochlse, arose and aired bie views ID favor of the resolution ID a very fOrcible and ridicu- lOus manner. This member apparently has DO patience with anyone who does not accept his views Be met more than hjs match this afternoon in Sam Webb and Smith, of MaricOpH. and be- tween the two they nearly had poor Heyne beside himself. Andrews saw there was some fun going on and he wanted hand so he called Dorsn to the chair and proceeded 10 ar Lls views he is also a member Ct the judiciary committee and was, of couIse, n favor ot the resolution. IL was finally moved l to make IL a special orce- of business Tor l tomorrow at lls30. but thls was lost; | then they voted on tue resolution; that was lost Smith moved 10 reconsider, and Webb moved 10 lHT It on the table | indefinitely, which was carried. The ! administration men seemed perfectly ! di-gusted. Ii they could have held 1T | oyer until tomorrow they would prob 1 Shly have carried IL by a close vote. In | this way nearly Rn hour was consumed. Yesterday, Webb called Brace well to | the chair when he introduced his bill | to take slice of of Ygvapai. Irippel, | of Gila, followed with bill for another | slice ut Yava-pai. This stirred up the ] poTthern delegation, and had the same l effect as 8 red flag has on bull. There
 We're motions and amendments, amend ments to the amendment, poInts of or der Rnd questions Of privilege until
 Braceuell could not tell whether he was
 sfoot or horseback.
 The council gets thrt ugh its business
 much more quickly. They srs only in session each day from thirty minutes to an hour and half. but there is plenty of eommIitee work and correspondence to occupy the balance of the time
 Drake particularly has a very large mail every day and Is kept busy from morn
 ing until night.
 At present there is A legislative com
 mittee going over the books of the in sane asylum commissioners. They hope
 to find something to make political cap ital out of and will feel very badly II l they don't succeed-besides they might
 receive s reprimand from Parish.
 There is nothing new about the con- missioner of immigration. This ap pointment will be held of probably un iii near the close of the session. In this way the Governor keeps all the sppli
 canis on the string. and each one thinks he may have some chance. A great many people here would like to see Hughes appointed, but nearly all are of the opinion that Zulick does not dare go back on Parish. As it stands now il lies between Al Jones, l.. c. Hughes and Tom Parish. Jones and Hughes each have good backing and either one would be confirmed without any trouble. Parish, without any backing and with out having done anything for his party, seems to stand a b tier chance.
 Ii is rumored that there Is another probate cOur: bill being drawn up 10 replace the one introduced by Blinr. RhUn's blll did not meet with & very en- thuslastic reception n the lower house. and the chances were It would be killed there. There are some very independ- enc democrats here who will not allow themselves to be led or handled by Bny clique, which Is a very good thing for the people. Among the most prom ineut of these are Sam Webb of Mari copa and J. B. Scott ot Pima. Patsy Collins of MohBve is the wittiest man in the house and i5 always ready with good story. There IS great scheming going on now and there may be some developments in few days. I.